I have an old x86_64 computer which I am planning to use as a NAS. Which of the 2 is a better option? Is it helpful or better to run on bare metal or as a VM on proxmox?

  • MrGandalf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 年前

    I have tried few of them but I highly recommend you to try UNRAID. It will introduce you to world of docker containers

    • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      I run UnRAID myself as well. I don’t need raw performance, just stupid amounts of storage for my data hoard, and being able to slap in whatever disk has the best $:gb whenever I need to expand has been such a nice change.

      I do have a SSD pool to run my containers and separate one for drive caching as well.

        • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          Hadn’t heard of it, seems like it’s similar to Unraid, but parity has to be manually syncd whereas UnRAID syncs constantly?

          • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 年前

            Kinda, but it can accept JBOD and you can add new disks of any size whenever you want without the need to reconstruct everything (things that I think that’s necessary with UnRAID, or am I wrong?)

            • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              1 年前

              When adding/removing disks you do have to rebuild parity, but it’s not the end of the world and it handles it automatically. I run parity checks pretty often anyway (every other week) and it takes the same amount of time.

              I just like the Unraid UI and Docker implementation tbh. I used to run everything off Portainer/Compose on my QNAP which was great, but these days I am lazy and having an Update All button is 🤌

              • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 年前

                Can you add disks of different sizes? With SnapRAID if I put a single disks in a different PC, the data is still readable, is this the same with UnRAID? Thanks for the info!

                • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  1 年前

                  Yepp exact same as Unraid, I have 3x 18tbs one of which is Parity, and a couple old 4gbs I need to drop but am too lazy to do so 😅. Can add whatever size but the parity drive has to be at least the same size as the largest drive in the pool.